The dish was tweeted out by San Francisco chef Richie Nakano and quickly earned the scorn of the internet.

"I didn't think I could possibly be more appalled at this year, yet you found a way," one person tweeted.

"This is so unhealthy," another practical-minded person wrote. "Do people not remember how much microbes are on touchscreens?"

The iPad-as-dish presentation was also captured in a Facebook video by one diner. It's even more amazingly strange in motion: The iPad plays video of a dog sniffing around while lumps of chicken liver mousse tart rest above it.

As SFist notes, this isn't a new trend. The Daily Mail wrote about English restaurants serving food on iPads back in 2015. No one has supplied any information on how this works logistically or hygienically, but we suspect you could give your toddler some snacks and an iPad and see how it goes from there.